Steam board



July 17, 1923.

1,461,930 W. W. NQBIENSKY STEAM BOARD Filed Jan. 27 1923 I mm Patented July 17, 1923.

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Application fi led January 27, 1923. Serial No. 615,209.

particularly directed (to steam boards adapted to be used in cleaning and pressing establishments.

Objects of this invention are to provide a steam board which may be operated without using superheated steam, which is so constructed that the moisture will. be separated from the steam and projected downwardly while the dry steam will rise and pass through the top of the board and througl i superimposed goods, and toprovide a steam board which is adapted for a variety of uses.

Further objects are to provide a steam board which may be used either for treating goods prior to ironing, which may be used to remove wrinkles from goods and substanlially duplicate the ironing process, which may be used to remove residual odors from dry cleaned goods, and which is so constructed that the goods may be freely drawn over the top of the board or may be slid on to the overhanging position.

Au embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whi.ch,

Figure .l is a side elevation of the board with. parts broken away to show the interior construction.

Figure 2 is a plan view with a portion of the top broken away.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 2.

The steam board comprises a casing having a laterally arched top 1, provided with a plurality of perforations 2. This top as may be seen from Figure 2, is relatively wide adjacent one end and tapers to rounded relatively narrow end 3. The lower portion of the casing comprises converging side walls 4 which together provide a trough like bottom portion slanting downwardly from the larger top of the steam board. An end closure plate 5 is provided for the enlarged end of the casing. Adjacent the lower portion of the casing a drain aperture Noninrw 56 is formed and a drain pipe 7 extends 'thcretrom -such drain pipe being attached by'anyvsuitable means, as for example the internally threaded fitting 8, brazed, sole dered, or otherwise securing the lower por-' tion of the casing." Adjacent the outer or narrower portion of the casing theslanting walls of the bottom merge into a rounded" portion 9, which is spaced a substantially uniform distance from the top 1, sodas to provide a material space between the top and the bottom portion adjacent the outer end of the casing.

.A valve controlled steam pipe 10 enters the casing preferably through the top adj acent the larger end thereof, and branches into two substantially parallel pipes 11 and 12 of unequal length The shorter pipe 11 terminates a considerable distance from the outer end of the casing, while the longer pipe 1:2 extends a material distance into the narrower or contracted end of the casin This arrangement of pipes is particularly adventageous as the greatest volume of steam is supplied the casing where it is most needed, that is, adjacent its larger portion, while a smaller quantity of steam is supplied the casing adjacent its more con tractedportion, or narrower end; These pipes, it will be noted from Figure 3, are

provided with a plurality of downwardly opening apertures 13 which roughly parallel the inwardly converging side walls 4, of the bottom portion. This construction provides downwardly projecting jets of steam which parallel the side walls and sweep condensed material downwardlyint-o the trough-like bottom portion. Also, any moisture carried by the steam will be thrown downwardly into the bottom trough-like portion, and substantially dry. steam will rise and pass outwardly through the apertures 2 in the top 1. The condensate drains downwardly towards the larger end of the casing and passes therefrom through the drain pipe 7.

The steam board may be conveniently supported by means of a pair of brackets 14, attached to the end plate 5 and provided with outwardly projecting feet 15, adapted to be secured to thewall 16. At an inter mediate point, a pedestal 17 is provided be slipped if so desired.

jecting, overhanging, contracted end of the casing over which portions of the goods may In the operation of the device it is in tended that the goods be either placed upon the top of the board or drawn thereacioss and treated with the rising steam. This process of treatment will remove residual odors from dry cleaned goods and may be used also to prepare goods for subsequent ironing. Numerous other uses of the appaiia'ttis' will" suggest-"themselyes and at en prov ded wh h l eno ate see ten tion will'ithetei'ore be called to only one or errl w e "l eq e hap ns *z afl ith e tain las es 2fs ds 119 a crpede chine, instance, ironing is undesirable hile" some renewing. process is needed. This of goods may be most ii y use-t d by this a p a us by mere y 'w'ii gftliem laterally across the board thefib'ysiilojecting them tothe action or steam without compressing and flattening r22; H1 iL :ui I them. as would be the case n the ord nary H mes r e preyid'ed whichisadapted to? be F int eie e ties and ai tion'in a 'manner applicable to a large Vaty, Qt. P tests.sttr a ment of oqds It w l. furt ere hat a t a ard has e efi d 1 .5," s s mi-ates ere-1 1 t l s' b Sea t at a te m oa d from within the casing and blown downwardly thereafter, being led from the easing by means of the drawn pipe.

Throughout this description the term goods has been used to avoid needless enu- I'nerations. It is intended that this term shall be generic t0 clothes, goods in bulk, and other fabric structures.

Although one specific form of the invention has been described in considerable detail it is to be understood that the invention may take different forms, and that such invention, thereof. isfto be limitedonly as set forth in the appended claim.

Iclaim: I y

A steam board. comprising casing having a transversely arched, longitudinally pered, pe ol a lv t p, n d e ul y converging lower side wallsslanting down Wardlytowards the larger end of said table, a drai p peor ing nto Said casing adjat 9- ts low po t o steem P X tending into said casing and branching o a'pa of llbs nt a ly pa allel pip of unequa e gth, th o ger o ch Pip extending into the narrower portion of said cas ng, sa d plpes having downwardly opening apertures whose axesroughly parallel the converginglower side walls of said cas- 111g, whereby moisture carried the steam' will be blown downwardly and dry steam will. rise from the central portion of said I casing and, pass upwardly through said apertured top.

l7. stimony at I laim h g ing I have hereunto set my hand at Janesville, in the county of Rock and, State of Wisconsin.

- W TER W. NOBIENSKY. 

